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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15410
Title:: A fifteenth-century manuscript containing Old Testament books from a Dutch History Bible, featuring commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179).
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Esther, in a Dutch History Bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the fifteenth century the History Bi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: c 1440
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15411
Title:: Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: An Armenian manuscript containing: The Four Gospels. ff.1v-2r, 3v-4r, 5v-6r, 7v-8r Canon tables ff.10r-90r Gospel of St Matthew ff.92r-147v Gospel of St Mark ff.148r-241r Gospel of St Luke ff.242r-310r Gospel of St John ff.310r-311v Colophons Further notices of ownership and interc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian
Date Range:: 1321
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15422
Title:: Works of Naucratius and Germanos, Bishop of Amathous
Scope & Content:: Works of Naucratius and Germanos, Bishop of Amathous, including: Germanos, Bishop of Amathous in Cyprus, Letter to the Clergy of his Bishopric on the Seven Sacraments; inc. Γερμανός ἐλέῳ Θεοῦ ταπεινὸς ἐπίσκοπος Ἀμαθούντων; expl. ἐν ἑκάστῃ Ἐκκλησίᾳ καθ' ἑκάστην νηστείαν.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15442
Title:: Psalms with commentary by Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭayyib
Scope & Content:: This still largely unedited commentary of the Psalms was composed by the physician, philosopher and East Syriac theologian Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭayyib (d. 1043). Ibn Ṭayyib was read by famous Muslim philosophers such as Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd, as well as by the Jewish polymath Maimonides....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1188
Extent:: Codex; 214 fols.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15649
Title:: Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King James I, 1 Jan 1605, at the Palace of Westminster
Scope & Content:: Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King James I, 2 Jac. I (i.e. 1 Jan 1605) at the Palace of Westminster. The roll is faded in places, and the recto, the list of New Year’s gifts of plate by the King, is incomplete. Evidently the very first membrane of recipients has been lost: Earls and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604-1605
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15689
Title:: Illustrated book of relics from Bamberg Cathedral
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript is a so-called ‘Heiligthumsbuch’ that itemizes the relics of Bamberg Cathedral and those of some nearby churches. It contains descriptions of relics with 133 illustrations of reliquaries from Bamberg Cathedral, the churches of St Stephen, St James and St Gangolf, and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and German, Middle High
Date Range:: 1508-1509
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15705
Title:: Biblia pauperum
Scope & Content:: Contents: Part of a Biblia Pauperum (Paupers' Bible) representing Christ's Passion in alternating pages of text and images. Decoration: 12 full-page framed series of pen-drawings in groups of 5 or 6, consisting of an image from the life of Christ above, with two images from the Old Testame...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex

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